Spanish-language broadcaster Univision Communications said Thursday it is taking several measures to improve financial performance, including trimming the employee headcount at its television operations by nearly 6 percent.The company declined to say where exactly the job cuts would come and…
Broadcasters would be required to switch to digital TV by April 7, 2008, under an amendment introduced by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Wednesday afternoon. Legislation recently approved by the Senate Commerce Committee set the transition date at April 7, 2009….
Anderson Cooper, one of the breakout stars of Hurricane Katrina coverage, will become the sole anchor of CNN’s 10 p.m.-midnight (ET) weekday block, to be re-titled “Anderson Cooper 360,” effective Monday, and Aaron Brown will leave the news network he…
NBC Universal Cable Entertainment has announced plans to launch a new channel called Sleuth that will feature entertainment programming in the crime, mystery and suspense genres. Sleuth is scheduled to launch Jan. 1, and will have more than 5 million…
CBS’s Web site CBS.com will stream three rebroadcast episodes of the network’s new sci-fi drama “Threshold” starting Wednesday.This marks the first time CBS.com has offered episodes of scripted series programming on the Internet via free video streaming. The three commercial-free…
Peter Dunn has been named president and general manager of CBS flagship station WCBS-TV in New York, it was announced Wednesday. Mr. Dunn has been president of sales and spot sales for the Viacom Television Stations Group. He previously oversaw…
The dream of being able to program one’s digital video recorder remotely moved one step closer to becoming reality Wednesday when four cable operators formed a joint venture with cellular phone company Sprint Nextel to develop technology that will marry…
Sinclair Broadcast Group said Wednesday that its third-quarter profit soared to $31.6 million from a year-earlier $3.5 million, lifted by gains associated with the sale of some assets and a reduction in expenses.Revenue slipped to $165.8 million from a year-earlier…
Comedy Central has renewed “Daily Show” spinoff “The Colbert Report” through 2006, the network announced Wednesday. The network originally ordered an eight-week run of the show. “In two short weeks ‘The Colbert Report’ has seamlessly paired itself with ‘The Daily…
Nexstar Broadcasting Group said Wednesday that it fell deeper into the red for the third quarter, posting a widened loss of $8.9 million, compared with red ink of $5.7 million a year ago as the company was hurt by declines…